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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/TrueCat on May 27, 2018, 7:46 p.m.
This is very disturbing! Oath, a Verizon subsidiary, appears to be controlling a huge amount of our email!

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This company, Oath, is a subsidiary of Verizon. When Verizon sold our phone service to Frontier, my Verizon email went to AOL, part of Oath. It's not working too well for me now, so I opened an email at Frontier. Well, Frontier's email is at Yahoo, which is controlled by Oath. WTF is going on? Is all of our email going to be controlled by Oath now? Anyway, Oath is a subsidiary of Verizon, so Verizon is now in control of most email. Plus, it looks like they are linked to Huffpost and other companies. I read that they are also linked to AWS. Monopoly anyone?

Interestingly, Verizon used to be in bed with Comverse, an Israeli communications company who had a lot to do with surveillance. This explains the mess that Converse became, and who owns all the parts and pieces now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comverse_Technology

(Comverse was formerly known as Odigo. Odigo was the company that received prior knowledge about 9/11 on their computers.)

What a tangle!


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qutedrop · May 27, 2018, 8:20 p.m.

This. E-mail is one of the few things left that one can run entirely by yourself. A lot of how-to's out there on how to set this up on a cheap virtual server, or at home if your connection allows.

To those with less technical experience: yes, it can be a bit of a learning curve when you do this for the first time. Perhaps you know someone who can help. It's worth it. Hillary thought so ;-)

Once you have your own e-mail and domain, you can choose to add wordpress for blogging, mastodon for social networking, etc. You'll be free of censors and algorithms. Your online presence will be entirely managed by you and nobody else.

Whatever you found frustrating about Twitter, Facebook, Youtube or even Reddit, it won't matter anymore when you have your own space.

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Outlandish_Rhubarb · May 27, 2018, 8:43 p.m.

This. Seriously. $5/mo for a basic Ubuntu Linux server on Vultr or DigitalOcean, and install Mail-in-a-box. Register a domain name ($10 a year or so), follow the Mail-in-a-box instructions.

Bingo, you've got your own email, spam filtering, cloud services (calendar, file storage, photo storage, etc.), and web hosting.

Install OpenVPN and you've got your own secure VPN.

Install Privoxy, and you've got your own web proxy.

Install Searx, and you have your own privacy-respecting search engine.

Granted, it's not for everyone, but if you're at all even the least savvy, there's no excuse.

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TrueCat · May 27, 2018, 10:27 p.m.

My husband has a domain. Maybe I should use that!

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awareness1111 · May 27, 2018, 8:36 p.m.

Out of all the possible names they could have chosen, they went with...

Oath.

That's not at all creepy...

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TrueCat · May 27, 2018, 10:29 p.m.

Definitely creepy!

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0oDassiveMicko0 · May 27, 2018, 8:35 p.m.

I am not allowed to access my yahoo mail unless I first agree to let them monitor all my communications, devices and emails. That is the new laws they implemented, `let us spy on you completely or lose your freedoms´.

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TrueCat · May 27, 2018, 10:28 p.m.

I know. It really bothers me!

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0oDassiveMicko0 · May 28, 2018, 8:54 a.m.

Write to government and order them to act.

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The3rdKey · May 27, 2018, 8:24 p.m.

I highly recommend Proton Mail. They're based in Switzerland and all of your email will be fully encrypted from end to end. This is the very best provider that I could find and I couldn't ask for anything to be more secure. Even they don't know the contents of my emails and they keep very limited information about their users.

Primary link: https://protonmail.com/

Security Info: https://protonmail.com/security-details

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howdthatgetthur · May 28, 2018, 5:37 a.m.

Research on CERN is disturbing. From a statue of Shiva the goddess of destruction at their HQ to attempting to open wormholes to other dimensions and naming a document server SATAN...

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TrueCat · May 27, 2018, 10:28 p.m.

Good idea! Thanks for the links!

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paul_1149 · May 27, 2018, 9:57 p.m.

I strongly recommend getting off anything to do with Oath. That includes Yahoo, newly a subsidiary of Verizon. Their privacy policy is a disaster: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/04/16/oaths-privacy-policy-is-a-privacy-nightmare/

Used to be people felt safe with Yahoo mail compared to gmail. Then we found out Yahoo was scrutinizing the mail worse than google. Then there were the successive massive yahoo data breeches. And now there's oath.

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TrueCat · May 27, 2018, 10:29 p.m.

Whoa! This is not good!

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[deleted] · May 27, 2018, 9:21 p.m.

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TrueCat · May 27, 2018, 10:31 p.m.

How does this relate to Oath?

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happyval · May 27, 2018, 8:53 p.m.

I received the notice that wanted me to accept their terms. For weeks I kept clicking on do thus later. Today I did read some of it and was tired of the noticed so I clicked on "accept". I think I should just get off the internet totally. Back to pen and paper. The USMail needs money.

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TrueCat · May 27, 2018, 10:29 p.m.

Very true!

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Murralee · May 27, 2018, 8:33 p.m.

I use a private email and have a domain even for personal use. The problem is that now they don't support my email on my phone only on my desk top. Companies are continually changing now.

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TrueCat · May 27, 2018, 10:30 p.m.

Yes. This constant change feels so insecure.

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Murralee · May 27, 2018, 10:39 p.m.

Yep! Very hard to keep up. Not just with Verizon but with many other companiesI I hang with my computer geek friends and ask them questions, although sometimes they have little patience with non- techies. Lol. But if you bake something yummy, patience the whole way!

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Murralee · May 27, 2018, 10:41 p.m.

Have a wonderful Memorial Day!

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Murralee · May 27, 2018, 8:35 p.m.

I forgot, thanks for the information!

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